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Climate Crisis
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Indigenous Voices in Climate Activism: Autonomous or Subjugated?
The voices of First Nations, often key to environmental activism through land right battles, should not be subsumed by other activist groups, says Sara Santiago.
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Lakota Vow: ‘Dead or in Prison Before We Allow the KXL Pipeline’
President Obama is scheduled to be make a final decision on the pipeline by the middle of 2014.
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The West’s Coming Tragedy of the Commons
John Wesley Powell and FDR warned about the California and Colorado Basin droughts and proposed ecological solutions that Congress ignored. We are beginning to reap the whirlwind.
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Realistic Left Politics in Texas
In Texas and everywhere else, a realistic politics should challenge not only obvious opponents on the right, but untrustworthy allies in the center.
Debate: Is the Democrats’ Talkathon on Climate Change Just Talk?
Center for American Progress Director of Climate Strategy Daniel Weiss and IPS Fellow Daphne Wysham debate whether the Senate Democrat's all-nighter meant they are serious about tackling global warming.
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Developed Nations Give Up on Stopping Climate Change, Turn to Mitigating Impact, Largely Abandoning Third World
Inu00a0"Windfall," McKenzie Funk writes about those who would make money off of climate change, acknowledging the droll ironies of a society that can profit from its own self-destruction.
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Pentagon Calls Climate Change Impacts “Threat Multipliers,” Could Enable Terrorism
The U.S. Department of Defense released a report declaring the threat of climate change impacts a very serious national security vulnerability that could enable further terrorist activity.
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By the Way, Your Home Is on Fire: The Climate of Change and the Dangers of Stasis
Right now, you can think of the way we're living as an office tower and the fossil fuel economy as a plane crashing into it in very, very, very …
Whistleblower Evan Voke’s Evidence Against TransCanada Whitewashed By Regulators
Are regulators whitewashing TransCanada's performance record by not making incident and inspection reports available to the public or the press?
Viva la #SharingSpring!
As spring begins to bloom, the sharing economy movement is ramping up its activities with a series of events being planned in different cities and world regions.